Archive for August, 2007

Dave Kiersh has got some good comics (above) at his newish blog. And boy do we have a giant dispatch for you today.


If you’d like to have your minicomics reviewed by the Daily Crosshatch, I’ve set up a PO Box in Minneapolis for that purpose. The box will become active on Saturday, September 1, 2007. Try not to send anything so soon that it will be returned to you by the Post Office. Do [...]


The Trial of Colonel Sweeto
By Nicholas Gurewitch
Darkhorse

To suggest that Nicholas Gurewitch’s strip, Perry Bible Fellowship, is one of the most consistenly hilarious webcomics of all time is hardly hyperbole. In fact, such a statement seems downright conservative. The strip is, to my mind, an incredibly strong contendor for the funniest webcomic of all time. Reading [...]


Despite having one of the most instantly recognizable styles in the industry, Peter Kuper has remained something of a chameleon, fully submerging himself in every diverse project he takes on, from his early days as one of the founding members of the counter-culture-defining rag, World War III Illustrated, to his hallucinogenic paintings, to the fittingly [...]


In which members of the rock community tearfully reveal their geeky comic obsessions, beneath their hardened irony-based exoskeleton.


An Inside Job #1-3
by Hob
Graphesthesia
Thoughtful people ask ‘What builds the dreams of men?’ I don’t know and I can’t say that An Inside Job helped me to understand. But if the question was ‘What are the dreams of men?’ I think I’ve got a pretty complete answer now that I’ve read issues 1-3 [...]


Okay, so we spent a chunk of the second part of the interview railing on Disney, but very few people in world of indie comics are as unique qualified to log such complaints as Renee French. You see, while her work for publishers like Top Shelf and Fantagraphics is perhaps among some of the darkest—or [...]


I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!
By Fletcher Hanks (Ed. And Afterwod by Paul Karasik)
Fantagraphics

It should naturally be taken as something of a sign of good faith when a the back of book contains recommendations from a creative power trio like Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Crumb, and Gary Panter. One ought also to assume that the [...]


The view up here…


When we read—as no doubt many of you did—in Boing Boing a couple of weeks ago, that Ivan Brunetti, one of alternative comics’ most talented degenerates was a contender for a spot as a replacement artist for Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running and much-loved strip, Nancy, we couldn’t help but attempt to get the back story [...]